Espresso Quotes

• The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.

  Ernesto Illy

  Coffee, Expression, Quintessential

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• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Love, Sweet, Coffee

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• Espresso is a miracle of chemistry in a cup.

  Andrea Illy

  Miracle, Cups, Chemistry

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• Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

  Andrea Illy

  Wine, Vintage, Painting

  Andrea Illy, Rinantonio Viani (2005). “Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality”, p.16, Academic Press

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• I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

  Carly Simon

  Dream, Coffee, Clouds

  Song: You're So Vain, Album: No Secrets, 1972

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• Wake up and smell the coffee.

  Ann Landers

  Coffee, Smell, Golden Girls

  Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 1955.

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• Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, France, Champagne

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• The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

  Mark Helprin

  Coffee, Soul, Stronger

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• The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.

  Andrea Illy

  Magic, Made, Beans

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  Coffee is a language in itself.

  Jackie Chan

  Coffee, Martial Arts, Language

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• I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Coffee, Energy, I Love Coffee

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". www.ericspitznagel.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Coffee, Excellent, Fence

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• To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache.

  Jasper Fforde

  White, Heartache, Choices

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• If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Fans, West

  "Kanye West's vaulting ambition does him - and others - a disservice" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coffee, Philosophical, Cups

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.55

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• No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Coffee, Offering

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.60

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• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Success, Coffee

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 51 (1917)

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• The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Cheer, Coffee

  1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.

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• I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Coffee, Needs, Actresses

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2012

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• Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Personality, Too Much

  "Letterman Lets His Guard Down" by Bill Zehme, Esquire, December 1994.

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• We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

  John Ortberg

  Followers, Sovereign

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.250, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, People, Inspire

  "Daily Rituals" by Mason Currey, www.slate.com. April 19, 2013.

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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

  Paul Erdos

  Witty, Humorous, Coffee

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• I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, Drinking, Meditation Practice

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